Episode 5 - God Answers Prayers

God Answers Prayers Acts 12:5-12……. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.” When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. What an amazing passage of scripture. What an awesome answer to prayer. Peter is so caught-up in the supernatural of these unfolding events that, at first, he thinks he is in a vision. An Angel turns up in his prison cell, wakens him and helps him to walk out of his incarceration. They pass the guards, who see neither Peter nor the Angel and go out of the unlocked main gate, through the streets and into the prayer meeting where they were praying for the very thing that happened before they finished praying. Imagine the euphoric jubilation that filled the room just as angelic light had flooded Peter’s cell only moments earlier. Our God hears our prayers and He responds. Hallelujah! To read this scripture in context please go to ‘McKenzie is Spared’: http://www.thewaycm.com/mckenzie.html